The Orce Man : Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Maps and Figures -- A Rough Guide to the Orce Man -- Introduction-The Orce Man -- Chapter 1 Discovery (1976-1984) -- 1.1 Setting the Scientific and Political Scene -- 1.2 'Look What We've Found!' The Orce Man among Politicians, Experts and the Public -- 1.3 The 'Spanish Olduvai' and the Discoverers' Reward -- 1.4 A Great Post- Franco Discovery and a Small but Troubling Crest -- Chapter 2 Controversy (1984-1987) -- 2.1 A Painful Trip to Paris: From Man to Donkey -- 2.2 A Country's 'Obsession': 'Is the Orce Man our Ancestor?' -- 2.3 Science in a 'Different Dimension' -- Chapter 3 Conference (1987-1996) -- 3.1 Gibert's Research Team and the Conference Preparation -- 3.2 An International Conference as a 'Tool' to Convince -- 3.3 A Triple Victory (Science, Media and Politics) -- 3.4 Scientific Conferences: Much More than Debates among Colleagues -- Chapter 4 End (1996-2007) -- 4.1 An Unexpected Attack -- 4.2 Control of the Remains Means Control of the Research -- 4.3 The Process of Isolation -- 4.4 The Hominids That Came from the South: Gibert's Popular Science Book -- 4.5 The End of a Long Controversy -- Chapter 5 A 'First' American to Compare: The Pedra Furada Controversy -- Chapter 6 Coda: The 'Orce Boy' -- Chapter 7 The Orce Man: Controversy, Failure, Media and Politics -- Annexes -- Annex 1 Anatomical Features of the Orce Man -- Annex 2 News from 1983 to 1999 -- Annex 3 The Travelling Bone -- Bibliography -- 1 Interviews -- 2 Archives -- 3 Secondary Literature -- 4 The Press -- Index.

The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Reserach is a detailed account of a long controversy that shows the role of newspapers, politicians and scientists in how a scientific claim is belived in the late 20th century.

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